The smartphone war is being waged on many fronts. Of course there's the never-ending price war and battle for customers at the retail or carrier level, but smartphone makers are treading just as deep into the legal department. Patent disputes abound in the wireless...
Everything Everywhere Ltd announced the appointment of Olaf Swantee as Chief Executive Officer. He will replace Tom Alexander who has resigned for personal reasons and to pursue other interests. Tom will step down from his post as CEO on 31st August 2011, but will...
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) continues to forge a different path in mobile commerce that sets it apart from the other top carriers in the United States. Today the company announced that will be the first carrier partner for American Express Co.'s (AXP) Serve.The somewhat...
RCR Wireless News is set to visit Bellevue the week of August 1 as part of our Mobile Broadband Tour and Conference series.Bellevue, which lies across Lake Washington from Seattle, is a rapidly changing city. It is currently the second largest city center in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
TIM Brazil had signed a contract with LT Amazon consortium to use their tower transmission lines and power substations to transport TIM cables across 27 cities in the states of Amazonas, Par
Mobile broadband access is increasing in Brazil. At the end of first half of 2011, Brazil had counted 43.7 million broadband access connections, according to a just-released survey from the Brazilian Telecommunication Association Telebrasil. The major part of this total is registered as mobile...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Seven months after spinning off as a separate company, Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) is doubling down on its services portfolio and making other moves to reach deeper into the public safety and enterprise sectors.“Out of the gate we’re performing pretty...
The ongoing debate about whether the D-Block spectrum should be used for public safety is heating up again as House Republicans drafted legislation that does not include the provision, while leading House Democrats are circulating a measure that would reallocate the D-Block for public...
Chinese infrastructure vendor Huawei has announced a partnership with Canada’s Manitoba NetSet Ltd at the Global WiMAX & LTE Development Forum in San Francisco on Thursday.
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Businesses increasingly are using wireless technology to communicate internally among employees and externally with potential and existing customers. The trend is only going to continue as more people drop landline telephone services. While traditional media companies were early adopters of mobile technology to communicate,...
“Android's really on a tear,” Larry Page said in his first earnings call as Google Inc. (GOOG) CEO today. Consider these numbers, which certainly contributed to the company's 32% growth in revenue from the previous year to $9.03 billion. More than 130 million Android...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) is expanding its portfolio of services and applications for the enterprise and government sectors. Around $2 billion, or 25% of the company’s total revenue, comes from services and it expects to see more growth in that area...
I just finished reading The Littlest Green Beret on Self-Reliant Leadership, by Jan R. Rutherford, Jr.* recently published by Pylon Publishing, LLC www.pylonpublishing.com. I have had the pleasure of working with Jan, and know him as a great self-starter and a natural leader in...
Fresh off the heels of the Federal Communications Commission taking steps to strengthen 911 location accuracy rules, network-based location solution company TruePosition Inc. published research that it says exposes the limitations of Assisted GPS for locating 911 calls.The research, conducted with ABI Research, included...
Considering all the activity of late, PayPal appears to be jumping into the deep end of the mobile payments space. The company is planning to launch a new application for Android devices later this summer that leverages near field communication technology to provide a...
Regional iDEN operator SouthernLINC Wireless announced today that president and CEO Bob Dawson will relinquish his position at the carrier on Aug. 1, at which point he will move to chairman of the board before retiring on Oct. 1. Don Horsley, currently VP of...
Verizon Wireless (VZ) continued its push for consumer privacy announcing a deal with online telephone directory Phonebooks.com to stop providing information associated with cell phone numbers of Verizon Wireless customers. The carrier hinted that the deal could be temporary as the two parties are...
